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Is it possible to authenticate a user through Stack Overflow API?
Is it possible to use the Stack Overflow API to authenticate a given user identity such as with Facebook, Twitter, or OpenID?
If it's possible: Can you tell me the method (s) that make this happen?
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Do calls on the 1.1 API and the 2.0 count against each other's limits?
Do the old 1.1 API and new 2.0 share limits?
Or do my Stack Apps running on 1.1 calls not affect my limits for apps running on 2.0 calls?
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After a throttle violation, could the error message include the time when the block will be lifted?
I got my first throttle violation error after running in jsFiddle some example code given to me by a library author in response to a question of mine about how to use their library.
This is the error ...
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Why doesn't the API return suggested edits on tag wikis?
Is there a reason why the API doesn't return suggested edits on tag wikis on the suggested-edits route?
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Few typos in the documentation pages
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/vectors
When passing a vector, sepeate each id with a semicolon. For example, /users/1;2;3;4;5?site=somesite would fetch users with ids 1 through 5 on somesite.
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API Implicit Authentication with Python
I am working on an desktop inbox notifier for StackOverflow, using the API with Python.
The script I am working on first logs the user in on StackExchange, and then requests authorisation for the ...
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Why do I get a throttle violation after 300 requests while using a key but no access_token?
I'm doing some testing on my app, and I let it run on a machine this afternoon while I was away. When I got back, I was geting 503 throttle violation errors from my API calls.
I was calling the "...
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“Try It” URL has wrong URI
On API doc pages, the “link” link at the top-right of the “Try It” sections presents a URL with the wrong domain name:
For example, on docs/similar, the URL displayed will be:
https://api....
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The API has stopped allowing CORS requests
I just noticed that a script I have that makes CORS requests to the API stopped working on Meta Stack Overflow, claiming that the domain isn't allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin, which is true ...
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Parameter `tagged` in `search/advanced` seems to use `AND` instead of `OR`
It seems that search/advanced has the same problem as in "The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags" question.
When I select c#; .net I only get results tagged both c# and .net:
http://...
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Implicit OAuth Flow stopped working. Redirect happening to a non existent URL [duplicate]
The following URL is first hit when a user clicks on Login:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=202&redirect_uri=https%3a%2f%2fstackexchange.com%2foauth%2flogin_success&scope=...
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Python library for the StackExchange v2 API? [duplicate]
So I'm aware of Py-StackExchange and pyso.py, but neither covers the v2.0 API. Does anyone know of a Python library for the 2.0 API?
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Java wrapper for the Stack Exchange API 2.0?
I've checked out StackWrap4J, but it looks like it doesn't support some of the new methods provided in the v2.0 API (specifically the ones having to do with user authentication). Does anyone know if ...
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Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?
I have run into some confusion over the presence of the body attribute in an inbox-item returned by the /inbox method.
When item_type is set to "careers_invitations", the body attribute appears to be ...
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Why is there a difference between "questions" and "search" in API?
I have a query to find the number of questions tagged java from 2012-08-01 to 2013-08-01. Running this using both /questions and /search produces different results:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2....
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Getting global information (Stack Exchange) about a list of users
I'm working with the API for several weeks (see my app here) and I'm trying to get the username of a particular user from its Stack Exchange ID.
It's possible by querying /users/{ids} but it returns ...
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Can we get write access to user favorites?
I'd like users of my app to be able to add questions to their favourites.
Will this be added to the API as an authenticated call?
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Is there a way (or app) to get realtime updates of new questions with a given tag?
According to Stack Exchange API not realtime?, the API does not return results in realtime, but has 1 minute delay for the same query.
Is there a system or an app that delivers new questions in ...
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After which time span can my vote no longer change?
I came across a toast that appears when I try to change my vote that I made a few days ago.
Is it documented somewhere after which time span you can no longer change your vote? Or does the API ...
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What is the difference between accepted and is_accepted?
I saw there are two fields in answer type.
One is accepted, introduced in v2.2 and needs private_info access.
While another one is is_accepted without these limits.
Can somebody give an explanation?
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Update Teams API documentation to reflect dependency on tier
The documentation says (emphasis mine):
Starting with the release of Stack Overflow For Teams, the Stack Exchange API exposes read-only access to data stored in private Teams.
This is slightly ...
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How to get up_vote_count and down_vote_count for a user?
I'm testing the following command:
$ curl -s "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/55075?&site=stackoverflow" | gunzip -d | python -m json.tool
However it doesn't return up_vote_count and ...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag?
Would also be good if I could also find the top questions/answers in a particular tag - i.e. questions tagged with Ruby or PHP.
Per the docs the only thing I can see that will return questions in a ...
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Can you identify a user from the access_token?
I have the access_token after authentication from the user. At this point I don't know with which sites this user has registered. Is it possible to get user information like the display name or ...
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the stack exchange javascript library is 404
the library listed on the doc page for Authentication
https://api.stackexchange.com/js/2.0/all.js
ultimately redirects to
https://api-v2cdn.sstatic.net/js/all.js
which results in varying degrees ...
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questions/{id} help page sort parameter description is inconsistence with others
The description of the Sort parameter in questions/{id} help page is inconsistent with those of other pages.
On the questions/{id} help page:
sort (optional):
How a collection
should be ...
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400 when posting a question to the Stackexchange API
I am adding a question via the API and I manage to create a preview of my question (See JSON extract below).
{
"has_more" = 0;
items = (
{
"creation_date" = ...
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Can the API Edit a Question, changing only one field?
The documentation for the edit question method (/questions/{id}/edit) is somewhat vague.
Are all of the parameters required?
For example, if the only field I want to change in the question is tags, ...
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Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?
For the type "string", I think there is some upper limit of character count.
For example,
post title : 200 characters
post body : 30000 characters
In the help page, currently like this
"body": {
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The /questions endpoint only returns around 30,000 items where 400,000 are expected
I use stackr library and I registered an api key as the library mentions "since it increases your daily quota of queries from 300 to 10,000." So I use the following code, which worked fine ...
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Can I get more results/options from /users/{ids}/top-answer-tags?
/users/{ids}/top-answer-tags returns the top 30 tags for a given user. It's also the only endpoint that returns the user's tag scores along with the rest of the tag info. I'd like to use this data ...
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Sorting the event stream
It seems like the data returned from the /events endpoint is flawed by being returned in descending order. For example:
{
"items": [
{
"event_type": "comment_posted",
"event_id": ...
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Typo in throttle violation error message
I was just playing around with the API locally and got throttled for the questions and answers methods (the only two I was using).
Anyway, I noticed there’s a small typo in the error message that’s ...
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Ability to sort answers by number of revisions via StackExchange API v2?
I was curious whether there was a way to easily find which StackOverflow answer has the highest number of revisions and/or to sort by that metric.
I see mention of a sort function in the ...
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user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small
the suggested_buffer_size of user.about_me is currently 3000.
it is apparent that this is the server-side field length.
the problem is that the text is stored server-side in markdown but when served ...
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